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[edit] Ask Questions

Did someone say "Ask Questions?" Hummm, You mean there are questionpoints around here? Now that would be a good idea. If QP and the WikiFoundation were to collaborate.--Simonfj (talk) 22:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notes to Lorcan

Re: Your log entry. Jan 3 2008 I really like your phrase, "the document understanding community". It's a furphy (a perfect Australianism for this context) of course. Just like "the more information, the better the issues can be understood". We'd all like to think it were so, but understanding is just something two (or a few) minds might agree upon and clarify through communicating. Unfortunately, the curator's approach is to just to put 'their' digital objects' in the centre, invariably presupposing their institutional repositories are inviolable and the world will continue to revolve around 'them', while all the evidence of how digital libraries are now being built (and more importantly, used) a la Wikipedia-type projects is studiously ignored.--Simonfj (talk) 22:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] copyright

how to enter copyright status in marc data —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.208.219 (talk) 05:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

On 9 January 2008 the article was moved from OCLC to Online Computer Library Center for the reason "spell out initialisms in article titles". I cannot find this criteria at Wikipedia:Naming conventions. We have, for example, CNBC, not Consumer News and Business Channel. The full name is "OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc." and has been since 1981. It appears from http://www.oclc.org/us/en/about/history/default.htm that it has never been called just "Online Computer Library Center". The organisation mostly refers to itself as just "OCLC" and this is also what most people call it. The broad naming convention is to "use the most common name", which is "OCLC". There is no indication at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Companies that the full formal name should be used (only that the "Inc." should not be included). So we have HBO, not Home Box Office, its formal name. I propose reverting to OCLC, unless there is a good rationale I have overlooked for changing to OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Nurg (talk) 05:29, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Furor over OCLC licensing term changes

There is an ongoing debate in the blogosphere that editors here will be interested in. See this, this, this and this. -LeadSongDog (talk) 16:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I just came here after reading something similar on a British political blog. This hasn't really made the mainstream media (at least in the UK), so getting good sources may require some work, but if those sources can be found, this looks to me like an important enough issue for something to be mentioned in the article. (The article is currently completely devoid of reports of criticism - or indeed praise - I note.) Loganberry (Talk) 16:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
The Guardian has covered this issue [1], which is a gives a good reliable overview of the issue. (Emperor (talk) 15:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC))
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